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The Tragedy of X (1932)

de Ellery Queen

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Fiction. Mystery. HTML: A retired Shakespearean actor plays his new role�??amateur sleuth�??after a murder in a New York streetcar. Born during intermission in a seedy New Orleans playhouse, Drury Lane has spent the better part of his life in the theater. A majestic old-fashioned ham, he made his name in London, where his record-breaking run as Hamlet defined the role for a generation. When hearing loss forces him to retire, he turns his attention to human drama�??specifically crime. Using his powers of disguise, knowledge of human nature, and an occasional dash of theatrical combat, Lane is the most fantastic detective of all time�??onstage or off. In The Tragedy of X, a man is poisoned in the middle of a crowded New York streetcar, and not one of the dozens of witnesses can provide any useful evidence. The police are stumped until they receive a letter from Lane, claiming to have solved the crime by reading newspaper reports. He knows the killer's name�??but now he has to… (més)

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The first Drury Lane mystery Copyright Barnaby Ross (

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ME_Dictionary | Mar 20, 2020 |

An all time classic in mystery fiction and one of my favorite books of all time. The mystery is simple and yet elusive. My only regret is that the other books in this series do not measure up to this one. (

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JeffreyMarks | Jul 11, 2013 |

A near-classic of Golden Age detection, this is the first book by Barnaby Ross (the second pseudonym of Dannay and Lee, better known as Ellery Queen) about the actor-detective Drury Lane. Lane lives in an extraordinary enclave called The Hamlet, having had to retire from the stage owing to deafness. He engages the interest of Inspector Thumm by solving a case purely by reading about it in the newspapers (the story of this case is never told) and then becomes involved in a series of baffling crimes all of which take place on public transport (a streetcar, a ferry and a train). As usual with this sort of book the murderer's plan is needlessly complex and almost certainly would never have worked in practice, but if you can overlook that this is a good read. (

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A retired Shakespearean actor plays his new role�??amateur sleuth�??after a murder in a New York streetcar.
Born during intermission in a seedy New Orleans playhouse, Drury Lane has spent the better part of his life in the theater. A majestic old-fashioned ham, he made his name in London, where his record-breaking run as Hamlet defined the role for a generation. When hearing loss forces him to retire, he turns his attention to human drama�??specifically crime. Using his powers of disguise, knowledge of human nature, and an occasional dash of theatrical combat, Lane is the most fantastic detective of all time�??onstage or off.

In The Tragedy of X, a man is poisoned in the middle of a crowded New York streetcar, and not one of the dozens of witnesses can provide any useful evidence. The police are stumped until they receive a letter from Lane, claiming to have solved the crime by reading newspaper reports. He knows the killer's name�??but now he has to

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